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Just in case my other comment gets lost in the thread and since this is the top comment, here is the explanation as to why this isn’t a good thing “just because they are paying we shouldn’t care”Once a company acquires a lease, it then carries those subsurface reserves as assets on its balance sheet.…Continue Reading

The Denver-area Christian website designer seeking to block Colorado from compelling her to design websites with same-sex messages violating her beliefs got some powerful support Friday as supporters — including 45 lawmakers such as Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas — asked the Supreme Court to review her case. The…Continue Reading

Republican Glenn Youngkin accused his political rival of sending people with tiki torches to his campaign event Friday in Charlottesville, mirroring the violent 2017 protest that took place there. Mr. Youngkin, who is in a neck-and-neck race for governor with Democrat Terry McAuliffe, blamed the spectacle on his opponent’s no-holds-barred quest for victory. “I think…Continue Reading

The Supreme Court announced Friday it would hear a challenge from a group of red states, led by West Virginia, against Environmental Protection Agency rules aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.  The 19 states and energy companies say the EPA cannot set limits on carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act without…Continue Reading

Newly revealed documents show that law enforcement officials were concerned that far-left activists would “attempt to blend in” with Trump supporters at Jan. 6 protests and “cause trouble especially around cameras.” In a Jan. 5 email, a U.S. Capitol Police Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division official alerted several federal and police agencies to a Twitter…Continue Reading

The two men exchanged gifts. President Joe Biden pressed into Pope Francis’s palm a command coin bearing the insignia of his deceased son Beau’s military unit. Pope Francis handed Biden a signed declaration of peace. They sat and talked for 90 minutes in the Pope’s library in the Vatican. But underlying the warm greetings Friday…Continue Reading

The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress. Bannon earned that distinction when he refused to comply with a congressional subpoena to provide testimony to a select committee investigating the events surrounding the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Congress has no authority to prosecute anyone for anything.…Continue Reading

Next week the eyes of the world will be firmly set on the U.K. as it hosts the first U.N. climate summit in two years, as the world emerges from Covid-19. Ahead of the summit, on Oct. 27, Britain’s Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, delivered a long awaited national budget. This was the final opportunity for…Continue Reading